Seems to me that DOS 3.3 and PCTools (on one disk) were the zenith of PC OS technology. We (the professionals) failed dismally when we had the chance to educate the users or write the necessary batch files, instead we let them be seduced by the...
Thompson added that the list of supernode addresses was regularly updated during the operation of the software and was used in the provision of results in response to Kazaa user's search requests. Morle also revealed today that he had been...
Antivirus firm Sophos said the latest MyDoom variant searches an infected computer's hard disk for email addresses and then reverts to an internet search. According to a Sophos advisory, the worm "will send a query to the search engine using domain...
A single floppy disk, for example, represents some 500 pages of text, perhaps all of it needing to be made available to the court. Imagine the problems of presenting the contents of a 50GB hard disk drive.
The system can fix itself on the fly if there is a bad sector on a hard disk or even a processor that is showing a high rate of self-correcting errors, the software maker said. New security features planned for the Longhorn version of Windows...
In Vista, the process is automatic and runs in the background, so you won't even notice it. You can search for all documents authored by John Doe, then save the search as a virtual file folder for later reference without having to physically...